Spotlights on Alumni

Former Georgia football standout David Greene (BBA ’04) has joined forces with another former Bulldog star, Matt Stinchcomb (BBA ’98), to open the Atlanta office of Savannah-based Seacrest Partners, a privately owned insurance brokerage and consulting firm.

If you were Map Questing the journey that Bryan Calhoun has taken through the music industry since he began taking finance classes at the Terry College in 1990, you would start by typing in the address for UGA’s campus radio station, WUOG, whose cubbyhole offices on the top floor of Memorial Hall did not afford Calhoun a view of where he has ended up nearly two decades later at the modern, glass-walled SoundExchange offices on 14th Street in Washington, D.C.

Fallon’s new Atlanta-based independent insurance agency specializes in employee benefits. It has been so successful in such a short period of time that Benefits Selling magazine honored him as one of their five “Broker of the Year” finalists for 2009.

Mark Martin (MBA ’07) enrolled in Terry’s MBA program to learn how to sculpt a business plan for a charter school he planned to start in Atlanta. When Hurricane Katrina laid waste to New Orleans, he saw a chance to give a failing school district a new lease on life.

Amos (BBA ’73), the 56-year-old head of Georgia’s fourth-largest public company — and a perennial Fortune magazines choice as one of the best places to work in America — has made a career of his powers of persuasion.

An animal lover who once considered becoming a veterinarian, Viera was a regional financial manager for a large publishing company before leaving the rat race to open a do-it-yourself doggie detailing business.

Welton (BBA ’81, JD ’85) cut his teeth in international sports marketing at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, and the former academic All-American is now CEO of Atlanta-based Helios Partners Inc., an international Olympics branding and sports marketing company that also has an office in London, site of the 2012 Summer Olympics.